Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1174. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

[Ancient] INDIA, Guptas. Chandragupta II. Circa 380-414 AD. AV Dinar (7.79 g, 12h). Lion-slayer type. Chandragupta standing right with flexed knee, turning to draw his bow in a "Parthian shot" at a lion which sprawls over backward / The goddess Lakshmi seated cross-legged on a rÉcumbent lion left, holding diadem and lotus; tamgha to left. BMC Guptas 115; Altekar pl. VI, 7; Bayana 1170. VF. ($1500)